Description
Book SynopsisA concise, easy-to-read guide, introducing beginners to the engineering background of modern communication systems, from mobile phones to data storage. Assuming only basic knowledge of high-school mathematics and including many practical examples and exercises to aid understanding, this is ideal for anyone who needs a quick introduction to the subject.
Trade Review'The book is nicely written, and is recommended as a textbook for a one-semester introductory course on coding and information theory.' Pushpa N. Rathie, Zentralblatt MATH
Table of Contents1. Introduction Chung-Hsuan Wang; 2. Error-detecting codes Chung-Hsuan Wang; 3. Repetition and hamming codes Francis Lu; 4. Data compression: efficient coding of a random message; 5. Entropy and Shannon's source coding theorem; 6. Mutual information and channel capacity Jwo-Yuh Wu; 7. Achieving the Shannon limit by turbo coding; 8. Other aspects of coding theory Francis Lu.
